[PATCH setup] Make Enter in the user URL box cause ADD instead of NEXT

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Dec 7 20:46:00 GMT 2017


On 12/7/2017 1:35 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 05/12/2017 17:32, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 12/5/2017 11:03 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 12/5/2017 7:58 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>> The search textbox on the package chooser page needs the same fix.
>>>
>>> It's not immediately clear to me how to do this, since I don't know 
>>> what the default pushbutton should be while the user is typing in the 
>>> search box.
>>>
>>> One possibility is to convert the label "Search" to the left of the 
>>> box to a SEARCH pushbutton, whose effect is to call OnTimerMessage(). 
>>> If we make this the default, then pressing Enter will cause the 
>>> search filter to immediately take effect, which is probably what the 
>>> user expects.
> 
> It seems a bit weird to have a button which automatically pushes itself 
> half a second after you finish typing.
> 
> Attached is my attempt, which (ab)uses an invisible button.

I agree, this is better than my version.

>> Something like the attached?  This might not be quite right, because 
>> the previous default button is never restored.  I'm not sure how 
>> important that is.
> 
> I think it's something that should be done, if possible, so I added that.

In my testing, 'Next' does indeed become the default button after I 
click outside of the textbox, but there's no visual indication of this.

The MSDN page for DM_SETDEFID 
(https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms645413(v=vs.85).aspx) 
mentions a different situation where button highlighting doesn't 
accurately reflect the default button.  In that case it suggests sending 
a BM_SETSTYLE message to change the border style.

I looked at the documentation for BM_SETSTYLE, but it wasn't obvious to 
me what do do.

Ken



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